Stage 1 Identify Desired Results

Establish Goals: (G)
Maine Learning Results: Social Studies - E. History
E1 Historical Knowledge, Concepts, Themes, and Patterns
Grade 9-Diploma "The Revolutionary Era 1754-1783"
Students understand major eras, major enduring themes and historic influences in the United States and World history including the roots of democratic philosophy, ideals and institutions in the World.
d. Analyze and critique varying interpretations of historical people, issues, or events, and explain how evidence is used to support different interpretations.

What understandings are desired?







Students will understand that: (U)
•The past can help explain the present and the future.
•The outcome of the war was effected by many different variables.
•Different perspectives yield different stories.

What essential questions will be considered?

Essential Questions: (Q)
•How do the events leading up to the revolutionary war continue to effect us today and into the future?
•What were the opposing sides strengths and weaknesses and how did they effect the outcome?
•Why do different perspectives change the story that is told?

What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?






Students will know: (K)
Students will be able to do: (S)
•Important Events & People
Sugar Act, Currency Act, Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Townshend Revenue Acts, and the Sons of Liberty, Boston Massacre, Townshend Acts repealed, Committee of correspondence, Tea Act, Boston tea Party, Coercive Acts, Boycott, new version of Quartering Act, and The First continental Congress, Paul Revere, Lexington and Concord, Second Continental Congress, George Washington, Bunker Hill, Washington Crosses Delaware, Saratoga, France sails over, Charleston, King Mountain, Cowpens, Guilford, Longest battle, and York Town.
•Terms
Loyalist, Patriot, British, Americans
•Important Documents
Olive Branch Petition, Common Sense, Declaration of Independence,
Articles of Confederation, The Constitution.
•Describe why taxes played an important role in the events leading up to the war.
• Illustrate their knowledge of the different battles.
• Exhibit knowledge of the two opposing sides of the war.
•d. Analyze how different perspectives create different interpretations.
• Consider the different perspectives of t the Loyalists and the Patriots.
• Be aware of how certain events led up to the war.


2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and JayMcTighe